I pretty much got finished mining out a chunk with moss in my own world. The chunk I just so happened to mine out turned out to be a slime chunk, so I’m excited to turn that into a slime farm.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! That’s a 1-in-10 chance, so you got pretty lucky :)

@vegetavsluigi

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs It’s also the chunk that I set my iron farm up in, so it can be a two-in-one farm chunk and I’ll have an aesthetic build surrounding the chunk as well.

@darcyglavine5860

2 жыл бұрын

i did the same.. found a slimes while caving... dug out a big area and confirmed that it was a slime chunk.. then i mined it out from the top of world down. My slime farm is set up and then continued mining down. (i built this one kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqKHqtunYdK0grg.html ) . I have about 12 more layers of deepslate to go to get to bedrock. Did it the hard way; moss would have been way easier.... the one good thing is that its pretty close to a skelly spawner, so was able to repair my tools alot.. And because i have spent alot of time in that chunk i now have more slime than i am ever going to need in a single player world. ...

@davidcrane6914

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs I love how much you were able to pack in this episode. I personally love these longer episodes.

@dragonlorddem5003

9 ай бұрын

​@@vegetavsluigi⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰ ⁰

I wonder how many Pixel “rage moments” we missed off camera, while he had to mine all those ores.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

“Rage moments” is a bit of a stretch. A couple of sighs and eye-rolls, maybe. I don’t really get angry at video games 😅

@Spilled_Pizza

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs I don’t know sir, those sound like some pretty extreme reactions. Just try not to bring down your own house😂

@Conkussions

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs I feel ya, no need to stress like that lol

Was kinda hoping you'd also do the achievement at the end where you fall from max build height to bedrock. This is the perfect opportunity for it.

4:00 You can also use water bucket to activate the swimming And get out of the 2 block high hole...

@ceinotto80

2 жыл бұрын

or use boat maybe

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

2 жыл бұрын

that's what i usually do

@BYtheHORNsGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Chorus fruit is also another alternative that is especially good in the nether if this happens as you can't place water.

Others: *Using Creative and world edit to demonstrate ore distribution* This dude: *Using Survival and mining everything piece by piece legit to demonstrate ore distribution* 😶 RESPECT!! 🙋🏻‍♂️

@grewpet2253

2 жыл бұрын

hahaha true

Moss mining seems really good with making perimeters. Might have to do it for an underground creeper farm I want to build because I just don't like the look of exposed platform farms, especially in my spawn chunks where I have my main base. (also I'm not at a point yet of having a beacon, I prefer taking things very slow)

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

Moss mining is a lot of effort, but it’s a very *complete* way of taking down every block in a certain area. A spawnproof perimeter would be a much larger area though, it’d take a very long time!

@humourlessjester3584

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs thanks for the advice, Pix! I'm definitely not going that crazy with it. Just something akin to ImpulseSV's mob farm in his current hardcore world. He had a small area dug out for the farm and lit all the caves around it.

I've just mined a chunk from -30 down using moss, leaving ores for decoration which looks cool. I had planned to use it for a glow squid farm but then discovered a HUGE aquifer a few blocks away which makes my farm very low yield 😅 It'll basically be a fancy aquarium for axolotls now!

Geez, you make me wanna mine a chunk with moss too :D I've got a skeleton farm and a kelp farm so I'd definitely have enough bone meal.

@jekentmenietje

2 жыл бұрын

It's a LOT of work still

@xisco5525

2 жыл бұрын

If you do, do so in a slime chunk, that way you'll be able to turn it into a slim farm afterwards!

@seandasheep

2 жыл бұрын

@SaiyanZ United I won't work in Mesa moss won't take over That stuff

@GenuineLolotov

2 жыл бұрын

And you don't even need a large amount of bone meal to get started with moss mining, because you get a pretty good return on feeding the moss blocks themselves into a composter, usually enough to keep it self-sustaining!

@georgiakotsiri3805

2 жыл бұрын

Let me peer pressure you into doing it . Do it , do it , do it .

This might be one of my fav vids. Suck a unique and intriguing topic to discuss. Thank you Pix for all the effort you showed by mining an entire chunk.

The best levels to mine Deepslate Coal Ores are between Y-0 to Y5, cutting a 4x4 tunnel along Chunk Borders. You can also find Deepslate Emeralds at these Levels in Mountains, as well as a good sampling of the other Deepslate Ores. You can also use the new tunnels to get around to your Geodes in the area, or as a transportation hub under your Base.

@3:50 hey Pixlriffs, you can use the water bucket to enter swimming which gives you the opportunity again to get out of it :) that saved me multiple times lol

I was so excited to see this. Such a unique perspective from a survival side of things. Absolutely loved seeing the distribution as you moved down the scaffolding. Such a great episode mate!!

Personally I'm probably going to stick to caving and branch mining, but thanks for doing this so we don't have to. Sidenote, because you missed out on quite a bit of deepslate doing this, from my own test in the 1.18 datapack, (and later confirmed by Etho on his LP) using TNT to collect deepslate in a similar manner to looking for ancient debris is a fantastic way to collect large quantities of deepslate quickly, and while you do destroy a bit of the ores, you also expose a fair amount in the walls, and it forms fairly uniform tunnels. So if you need a lot of deepslate for a future project, it's definitely worth it compared to trying to mine without instamine. I think I was mining for all of five minutes before I decided to switch to TNT myself.

@theboxygenie

Ай бұрын

About the ores not being blown up much by TNT: that's interesting. I had wondered why Docm built his Hermitcraft tunnel bores out of diamond ore if he was literally blasting any potential ore just by operating the machine.

An interesting note about the ore distribution chart: While it is actually generated from the game data, it's still only an approximation, since it doesn't take into account the different types of veins the various ores can generate. Yes, it makes that difference for some of the distributions on various Y-levels, but for example diamond ore veins come in three sizes and "rarities", all spread out in the triangular distribution mentioned in the chart. The small veins generate up to 7 times per chunk with 50% air exposure, medium-sized veins generate about 4 times per chunk and 0% air exposure, and large veins generate about once every 9 chunks with 30% air exposure. Note on air exposure: It doesn't affect whether a vein generates at all. It specifies the chance that individual blocks of a vein are placed if they would be adjacent to an air block. Also, air blocks themselves are obviously never replaced by ore veins, so if the selected location for a vein ends up being in the middle of a cave, that's still the location of the vein, it just won't place any ore blocks there.

The interesting thing to realize is that thanks to villager trading, none of this is actually necessary anymore. In fact, other than maybe some initial cobble mining, and of course netherite that you have to dig deep into the nether for, you can get pretty much everything you need without leaving the surface. Granted, it might be faster in some cases (early iron before you have an iron farm set up in particular, and the 'loose' diamonds for things like enchanting tables and jukeboxes. Maybe redstone, but once you have a cleric trade going, they can supply that).

@rudrodeepchatterjee

2 жыл бұрын

The great thing is that with enough exploring, you can gather even netherite ingots to upgrade your gear, without ever exploding a bed, and the same goes with diamonds in village chests. That's the great thing about this game; You are not restricted to any single method. You have many alternatives, so as to suit any person's playstyle.

@mbrohman

2 жыл бұрын

You might be able to smelt diamond tools/weapons/armor from trades for loose diamonds but I’m speculating.

@rudrodeepchatterjee

2 жыл бұрын

@@mbrohman that only happens with metals, not crystals

@theboxygenie

Ай бұрын

​@@rudrodeepchatterjee Yes! You can even do crazy challenges like Skyblock (even without chests) or something like one-block stuff just by utilising these multi-pronged game mechanics.

Thank you so very much for all of your work Pix! I really enjoy watching your videos more than all the other Minecraft creators I’m subscribed to. Your understanding of the mechanics and the concise language you communicate them in is so incredibly refreshing! Now I just need to switch to Java so more of them apply to me 😂

crazy that gold was almost as rare as diamond. been having a hard time finding gold and this makes sense now.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

More about Gold in tomorrow’s episode!

@thejitendrashahofficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs Spoilers...

@stephaniemilligan1067

2 жыл бұрын

Without a Mesa, I've be getting the majority of my gold needs from the Nether.

@thejitendrashahofficial

2 жыл бұрын

Zombified Piglin Gold/XP farm exists.

Great findings on this experience. I got the impression that diamonds tend to form close or at chunk borders. So whether mining at -54 or -36, it may be interesting to favor the border of the chunk. What are your thoughts?

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

I only found one or two veins which were totally away from chunk borders - but we’re also uncovering four chunk borders at once, instead of just digging along one, so I get the sense we wouldn’t have similar results if we went branch mining

While mining a chunk like this is very good for the demonstration purposes of this series, I wouldn't go as far as to make mining decitions based on the outcome of this example. The best level for diamonds is still the lowest, as shown in the chart. Statistically speaking.

Are you gonna get caves and cliffs acheivement, This is the prime spot for it

@4:00 you could also use your bed to get out of that 2x1 spot beneath the bedrock.. no need to cheat =)

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

As long as you’re carrying a bed on you, and don’t mind waiting until nightfall. It’s pretty circumstantial

@Riffraffgames

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs sure, just you were carrying a bed (and who doesn't? :). Also I would rather start over than cheat but that's just me. Good to point out the hazard there tho! Excellent info

@whit3chick3n

2 жыл бұрын

Or a water bucket...

@philipp9135

2 жыл бұрын

You could use a boat too. Boats are crafted entirely out of wood and wood is a commonly carried resource

@Riffraffgames

2 жыл бұрын

@@philipp9135 true, I always have a stack of logs in the ender chest

I was waiting for this to complete

Great video. This reminds me of your museum exhibits, and speaks to your understanding and ability to relay actual game mechanics in a digestible fashion. Really well done.

I was really expecting to see at the end of episode that you would do the Caves and Cliffs advancement of jumping from build height to bedrock and surviving!

Pretty cool task to set for yourself, love the vids Pix, thanks for being so diligent.

I did wonder if it was truly better to mine for diamonds as low as possible. The amount of diamonds you found confirmed my suspicion that this is not necessarily true. Thanks for doing the hard work for us and mining the whole chunk for us to see what actually is the case. What I found surprising is the amount of infested stone and deepslate you wound up with. Would never have thought it would have been so prevalent.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

It also seemed like there was more infested deepslate the lower down I got, although that might just be anecdotal.

Thumbs up in respect for the effort and patience this took. Thank you for proving a metric I didn't know existed (I am a very casual and occasional MC player) and will likely forget after I sleep.

OML THE PROGRESS IS GREATT!! loved the vidd, can you try breaking every peice of bedrock in the chunk later on in the series?? big fan and keep up the good work ma man!!!🛐

This video helped me to understand the graphic better than any other source/page/video. Thank you.

Thank you for your effort! I have been loving these episodes

Nice! Ever since I heard that moss could convert stone I have thought of doing this. Thank you Pixlriffs that was amazing.

Super useful intel gathering mission! Also downright entertaining sir 👏😄 Thank you.

Fascinating to know about infested blocks not able to be turned by moss, but also can’t be silk touched. Imagine the pranks that could be pulled.

Thanks for taking the time to leave the ores and mine them later. It was good to see that visualization. Once again, suffering for our education! 😔

I think it would be really smart to turn that emptied chunk into your mega branch mine 🤓 you could run a minecart track down the center, with stops at the ideal Y levels for each ore, as well as possibly implementing things such as item streams to send your full inventory back to a central storage station! I'm sure you could think of even more great ideas to implement into this idea, hoping you decide to do this and excited to see your potential design!

Makes more sense than other theories I’ve heard. Thanks!

It’s helpful additional information to know that stone or deepslate that doesn’t convert to moss are infested blocks. I prefer not being taken by surprise! Thanks!

How do you always upload exactly when I get on KZread for the night? Amazing

I could listen to Pix all day

Even I mined an entire chunk with moss, pix but only managed to find 2 diamond ore in my chunk. I guess because of the big cavern which was in my chunk

This was awesome! Well done. I kinda still don't feel moss mining is all that fast, but then I never tried it. Watching these two videos makes me at least want to go and try it to see what it's like.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

It's a slow method of mining, but has the advantage of being very precise and thorough. It was very easy to maintain a 16x16 shape and clear out an entire chunk using this method. Using a beacon might be faster initially, since the moss method requires you to spread it manually using bonemeal... but I think that's balanced out by being able to remove deepslate faster than it's possible to do with haste II.

You mentioned the branch mining when you hit the bottom. It would be cool to see the comparison of the diamonds you found in the chunk to branch mining in 4 directions at the bottom. Say 100 blocks in all directions. Thanks for the vertical comparison.

3:27 that startled me HAHAH

Going from two empty spaces in that chest to nine empty spaces really makes it clear that mining ores right away with Fortune III is a better idea while collecting resources than just Silk Touch-ing them as you go and Fortune-ing them later. So much space is saved!

I'm mining out a circular area that's about 3-4 chunks wide for a build down to bedrock. I might switch from beacon mining to miss mining when I hit deepslate. That's gonna be a lot of bone meal, but I do have a Skelly spawner that's very close to the area, so it might work out. I've also got a villager trading hall loaded for repairs to tools.

I'm now inspired to find the tallest mountain from a seed hunt. And try this my self.

This is such a visceral way to teach ore generation

I recently explored a cave (lighting it up to optimize a farm) and most of it was underwater. With a lot of night vision and water breathing potions, it is very easy to explore and in just roughly 20 minutes I got almost a stack of diamonds! what surprised me was that once I got to explore the non flooded parts of the cave, I found only a small vein of diamonds. I don't know if this is related to no-air exposure, since the caves are flooded, but for me, exploring aquifers seems like the way to go, because you don't have to mine through deepslate and you still get those easy "exposed" veins. Again, I might have just been lucky, though.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

I believe underwater cave environments are considered “not exposed to air”, so you should theoretically find more diamonds this way.

Why is this soooo satisfying!

If you ever consider selling merch. Please think about some products with the sentence "Nothing much to write home about" on them. Love this sentence in your videos :D

I think I've also had most luck with diamonds around the -30 zone, especially in caves and mine shafts. Normally at -56 etc I just end up finding lava pools.... I might try moss mining in a cave that I've found an iron vein in to make it easier.

@isaack4046

2 жыл бұрын

jus go to -54 and all the lava lakes spawn below you

really interesting episode!

I went on chunkbase when I first started building in my world and found that I have 3 slime chunks in a 3x3 area. I’m going to have to pick one (or two or three) to mine out for a farm. Hoping to find a pile of ores in it! 👍🏼

X did a great video testing ore distribution and comparing it to the graph and found a lot of interesting data, and I've seen a few other similar tests. Seems a little uncharacteristic in your case, but such is statistics and probability...

@alexanderlammers6980

2 жыл бұрын

I mean minecraft has a lot of rng involved, so it doesnt surprise me tbh

@-FutureTaken-

2 жыл бұрын

For people who dont know who “x” is: kzread.info

@riuphane

2 жыл бұрын

@@-FutureTaken- lol, I probably should have been more specific

do you have all the footage that you dig all that, I only seen a little bit on earlier videos and I missed your stream, that was so satisfying to see

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t record the entire process, but the two three-hour streams will be up on my pixlVODs KZread channel later this week

@AbiManyu-kq7jj

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs aww that’s too bad, the time lapse footage would’ve been so good to watch

The amount of time and effort you put into making a 30 minute video... Impressive.

The rarest ore isn't deepslate coal or stone diamond, it's deepslate Emerald. This is immediately evident from the chart and coal isn't really meant to generate at deepslate but it does and it generates in veins of 1-4. Emerald on the other hand has - quite literally - a very slim chance of generating in deepslate, even 'slimmer' than stone diamond and it generates in singular blocks persistently. I hope people acknowledge this, because i've seen many other youtubers believing deep-coal or stone diamond is the rarest.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

Deepslate emerald has to be the rarest just based on biome spread. It's only able to generate in mountain biomes, which only account for 10% of the number of biomes in the Overworld, and possibly even less of the actual surface area because they rely on elevation to generate.

Very interesting. I didn’t realise you could get invested stone away from strongholds. I hit that in my new world I just started and thought I stumbled onto a stronghold. But need I realise I probably didn’t.

this is a wonderful idea for a video. good job sir

I think sculk mining should be thing. Because mining sculk with a hoe will also give you the XP to restore your hoe's durability. But, the only problem is the way to get the sculk. You can keep 1 or 2 shulker boxes of eggs with you, to spawn baby chickens and kill them to spread the sculk. Or, a better way of doing it would be to carry a few stacks of infested stone/deepslate with you, to spawn the silverfishes and kill them.

@gamingnscience

2 жыл бұрын

You cannot carry infested stone blocks. Pix showed it in this very video. If you silk touch those they turn into regular blocks.

@atifashhabatif8391

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamingnscience What? No, you can. I even saw farms for infested stone.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

Infested stone farms probably rely on silverfish spawners to infest the stone. Silk touch does not give the player infested stone in survival mode.

@gamingnscience

2 жыл бұрын

@@atifashhabatif8391 ate we talking Java or Bedrock here?

@THE_bchat

2 жыл бұрын

@@atifashhabatif8391 I've seen Bedrock players gather infested stone using Silk Touch tools that weren't pick axes, but I don't recall any Java players doing the same thing.

Amazing video

Hello Pix! Congrats on finishing digging up the chunk! One quick question, how long did it take from digging up the entire chunk? I want to get an idea on how long it could take to make a perimeter for a mob farm

4:00 Elytra and a bunch of rockets could get you out es well (Grian HC Season 8)

Imagine if this was accidentally and completely unintentionally a slime chunk!

@gamingnscience

2 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to comment the same thing.

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

I kinda wish it had been, would’ve saved a lot of work for a slime farm episode!

@gamingnscience

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pixlriffs on the plus side, you could use a slime chunk to demonstrate TNT mining to clear it.

A very interesting vid, that would be hard work.

it would be interesting to do branch mining around y=-30 then moss mine it down to bedrock. It seems like that could be a really fast way to get all of the diamonds in a chunk

This is part of my nightly Routine

Literally right after I watched this video went strip mining and only went through one tunnel and found 27 diamond ores lol thanks for the luck pixl!

Really fun watching this out of the ordinary videos. Is this chunk a slime chunk by the way? It could be cool

@Pixlriffs

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, it was not a slime chunk. But we'll be looking into ways of identifying a slime chunk when we make a farm later in the season!

You should do the jumping from the top of the world to the bottom to get the caves and cliffs achievement.

being at minute 6, and i already dont like the idea of cleaning out all the ores 😂 it looks so amazing right now 🤤😮

Love these videos. Really need to find diamonds though. About to raid a treasure bastion with Diamond chest plate and boots with iron leggings just so i good stuff. mining is bad on this world. Bedrock wither though can’t wait to see Java KZreadrs fight that. I play bedrock.

@phoenixstrills2289

2 жыл бұрын

He's done that before, on his bedrock achievement hunt series

Deepslate emerald ore are the new diamonds people!

I mined a chunk in my world with haste from a beacon but when I reached deepslate, I realized that haste doesn't affect deepslate which made my work a bit slower

What is the best thing to edit videos with? And what kind of microphone do you use or atleast what would you recommend if you don't mind my asking?

DS coal is in a range so close to DS emerald and DS emerald has a wider range even though DS coal will form in larger veins than DS emeralds and will on average be more common after a depth depending on the chunk. Wild. There might be a market for DS coal that adds value

Do a similar thing in the nether, so we can know about the ore generation in the nether

They should have made coal generate like iron at all levels - been caught on more than one occasion running out of torches deep underground - less fun to use up inv spaces when we use to rely on mining a bit of what we needed when we needed it.

Hi Pixl, really love your videos and tutorials. Its always fun and entertaining. I just wanted to know if Pillager Outposts spawn in a Multiplayer World. I've played a fair amount of Multiplayer Minecraft but I've never come across one before. I've also tried to look it up online but I didn't get a definitive answer as well. Can you help explaining that to me? Thank you.

I recently went mining in my world and was shocked by the amount of copper I keep pulling out!

You could've shown how much Moss you mined from the stats screen as well. Last time you showed, i believe you weren't even halfway done.

It would be so satisfying to break that one scafolding block from below...

thumb up for the effort.

Hoo boy. You’re probably not gonna believe this, but I did this on PE without mining out the ores. I even put a slime block drop and a bubble elevator. It was super cool!

Hi pix hope your having a great day

It is a SUPER SMALL sample.

im surprise you didnt get the achivement for falling from the highest block to bedrock while you were there 😆i know how much you like getting achivement 😋

I got like 4 villages in walking distance, huge caves that go into black stone, and even got a watchpost in walking distance. But I’m two hours of strip liking I found 5 diamonds. The struggle is real.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

2 жыл бұрын

What elevation did you mine at?

@stevekappes912

2 жыл бұрын

The nice thing is that with villagers, you don't need diamonds.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevekappes912 except for building

@SlothinAintEasy

2 жыл бұрын

@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 I was one step above bedrock. I’ll find some at some point. Just unlucky.

Isn’t there another method of checking for silver fish blocks, I remember that punching it with your fists is quicker than regular stone to break and using tools would take a little longer than usual that was one indicator of silver fish block was present and could be avoided without using F3

If it's Tuesday 12pm in US, what time and day is it in UK?

I’ve dug out a giant 150x150 square at y-58, -16, 0 and -32 and dug 2x2 tunnels strip mining and have found enough diamonds at -58 enough for 4 sets of armour and tools (2 each for my friend and I) and we are working towards a 3 stack diamond beacon I have to dig out another 150x150 square that’s the level I’ve had the most success

i wouldnt do this for the sake of my sanity XD i couldve just gone caving if i went for the ores, but if because im curious about ore generations, i'd use xray and spectator. but it is quite interesting to mine out a chunk

So the real question i have from this video: what's the best way to mine now? Moss mining? strip mining? I'd imagine if you needed all different kinds of materials, you'd need several different strip mines at different levels. I've been finding it hard to find resources in my own survival world with the new ore generation so I'm curious as to what's the best way to mine now?

Waiting to see if you got any deepslate emerald

A water bucket is a easy way to get out of a tight space in the bedrock

I am kind of surprised by the small amount of copper you found since it's almost the same as the iron. I expected it to be multiple times higher. Edit: ok, the copper blocks were as many as the iron blocks, but the raw copper ores were much more. It makes sense now.

This is soooooooooooooooo much easier in a creative copy of a world with commands :P

Hey Pixlriffs, just wondering how you got your skin. Did you create it ?

One chunk wonders

Heheh you said 'do do' (30:55)